What is Problem?

Problem is the very difficult situations and circumstances that we find ourselves and to which need urgent and desperate solution. When we struggle hard but failed to get the desired solution, then it becomes a real problem. Problems differ from one person to another, what one sees as a problem may be nothing but a child's play to another fellow. Problem is not just the difficulties of life but those difficulties to which we cannot find immediate solutions. While challenges are situations that we can overcome with some intelligent planning and actions, problems are often more difficult than those challenges. When a problem is easily solvable, it is still at the level of challenges, but when you have tried some of the popular ways of solving problems and you still have the situations in hand, then know that problem have set in.

Please understand that not every difficult situation can be called a problem, no mater how difficult the situation is, it is not a problem if you can find immediate solution to it. When the difficulties defile solutions and it seem as if it will not go away, then it is a problem, but I bet you every of such problems have a solution. There is no problem that does not have solution, even though it  is not so easy to get solution to some, God built the earth with some principles that make it possible for human beings to be able to find solution to every problem that he faces on the face of the earth. This is the reason man who couldn't deal with malaria fever before can now cure the disease easily now. HIV & AIDS that were threats to human longevity on earth are becoming easy to deal with. I want you to understand that whenever a problem defile solution, it is not the end of the world, with further planning and actions, you will get the solution.

There are certain principles that every man should know so we will not think that the end has come when we have problems and difficulties. Problems that plague man on this planet were not built to last for ever, that is why these two statements are true:

• When the going gets tough, the tough gets going, and
• Tough times never last but tough people do

I have seen it ones and again people getting out of tough situations; people overcoming very many impossible obstacles; I have seen people turning obstacles to miracles. Many really successful people on this planet have actually started out in life broke and without any god-father who could help them yet they succeeded. There must be a secret to life that if you know and keep, you will never end up in life as a failure no matter what difficulties you may ever face on this planet. Success or failure in life is not dependent upon the conditions of life you find yourself, it depends more on the way you handle it. Maybe I should take you back to some point in time on planet earth when people do not have access to some of these creative technology that is common to us today.

How do you solve people's problems?

One thing to do about people's problem is to speak God's words to those problems. Speak out the solution you so desire and the solution shall come to be, it has never failed for those who knows how to speak forth God's words. When you are faced with empty pocket, all you need to do is speak God's words and say, “But my God shall supply all my needs according His riches in glory by Christ Jesus”.

When you are faced with the problem of ill health (or maybe anyone of your loved ones) all you need to do is to declare the words of God which says, “By the stripes of Jesus Christ, I am healed” as you maintain your confession, it will surely come to pass in your life. Every problem you encounter or your people encounters can be solved by speaking the word of God to that problem with determination.

Always remember this that you are saved to save others, you are blessed to be a blessing to others. I have seen it again and again that when I face other people's problems, my own problem have always run out through the window. Go and do likewise and you will witness a lot of miracles in your life.

To sit down and do nothing but to expect luck or a big brother to appear out of the blue to drop it (solution to your problem) on your lap is an illusion, a mirage in the desert, a dream that can never come through. As quoted in the opening passage of this chapter, I love the saying of a great man whose name I do not know, he said, "some people are successful because they are destined to, BUT most people are successful because they are determined to"

I do not know whether you are destined to be successful but I do know that you can become successful if you are determined to. Destined to be or not, if you are determined to and you can give it what it takes, even you too can get there, I mean to the solution that takes people to the mountain top of success sooner than you or anyone else may ever expect.

Believe me dear friend, you can make it, you have what it takes, all you now need is to give it all it demands to make you a success in life, remembering that those friends of yours who have made it big are not better than you, they are not smarter, meaning that if they could make it, so can you. If you have been failing in an endeavour, that does not mean you are a failure in life. There is always another opportunity to do it all over again. As a child of God you have to understand that who you really are is different from what you are going through. You may be going through failure, that is not who you are, you are passing through it to the glory land of success

Created to Enjoy Solving Problems

Everyone of us was created to solve people's problem, the work you are presently doing is the avenue given to you to help solve their problems. Let me explain it in a graphical form. A doctor helps the sick people of this world get solution of healing to their problem of sicknesses and diseases, that is glaring. Some people's work does not seem to be helping other people solve problems but I say to you that every work that we do on earth helps people in one way or the other. This book you are reading is a product of hard work and sleepless nights of writing and thinking, but one way or the other, it is helping anybody that reads it to become better in handling their problems.

All human activities that are negative add to people's problem and should not therefore be encouraged by you. Activities like stealing, lying, killing, destruction of other people's properties are all negative and adds to the problems of our world. What happens to you after the encounter of a problem in your life depends so much on you and what you have on the inside of you. One of the reasons why I wrote this article is to encourage you to develop thick skin against the problem virus. To do that, it is good for you to understand the source of all problems. Who is behind my problem? You ought to know the force or forces behind every problem you may ever have in the land of the living. All problems came with a hidden agenda to accomplish in your life, but the good news is that each one of them have an expiry date. When you know the force behind your problem and the worth of that force, you can put up a greater force to overcome it.

The joy and beauty of this world is that those natural problems have helped put more money in people's pockets. The problem of rat invasion in most homes have created employment opportunities for thousands of people who works in companies dealing with rat killers. Anytime a natural problem occurs, intelligent people find solution and this solution always involved many other people who profits by making a good job out of the said problem. This tells you that most problem came to make some people rich, though it will never be seen as an opportunity except by the wise fellows in the first instance. The problem you are currently facing may be an opportunity to make you rich, think about it again, it may be an opportunity to help make many other people rich.